{"id":1220,"date":"2025-08-05T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:50:28","slug":"west-has-unacceptable-control-over-ukraine-former-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/west-has-unacceptable-control-over-ukraine-former-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"West has \u2018unacceptable control\u2019 over Ukraine \u2013 former PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiev\u2019s backers are turning the country into a \u201cdisenfranchised colony,\u201d according to Yulia Timoshenko<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western control over Ukraine has reached \u201cunacceptable\u201d<\/em> levels and\u00a0is turning Ukraine into a \u201cdisenfranchised colony,\u201d<\/em> according to the country\u2019s former prime minister, Yulia Timoshenko. The US and EU are using the ongoing conflict to \u201cundermine\u201d<\/em> the nation\u2019s sovereignty, she told The Times.<\/p>\n

In an interview published on Monday, Timoshenko claimed that Western experts play a key role in commissions appointing senior officials to Ukraine\u2019s highest judicial bodies, including the Constitutional Court, the customs service, the State Bureau of Investigation, and various anti-corruption agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to The Times, each of these commissions consists of three Ukrainian and three Western members, with the Westerners able to veto potential appointees through a joint vote. In the event of a tie, the Western members\u2019 votes carry more weight than those of the Ukrainians. British nationals are among those serving on the commissions, the paper noted.<\/p>\n

Since the escalation of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, \u201cWestern countries \u2013 under the threat of withholding loans \u2013 have imposed unacceptable control over Ukraine\u2019s state institutions,\u201d<\/em> Timoshenko said, calling such control \u201ccruel and unjust.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ukraine is \u201cnot a failed state,\u201d<\/em> and the US and its allies would do better to apply their oversight mechanisms in countries such as Afghanistan, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, Timoshenko, who leads the opposition Fatherland party\u2019s faction in parliament, insisted.<\/p>\n

She\u00a0pointed to Ukraine\u2019s anti-corruption bodies as tools of Western control over Kiev and welcomed Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s controversial attempt to curtail the autonomy of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor\u2019s Office (SAPO) \u2013 two agencies established with Western support to tackle rampant graft in Ukraine \u2013 calling it a \u201cbright day\u201d<\/em> for the country.<\/p>\n

Zelensky introduced the relevant legislation last month, but later withdrew it after the EU threatened to reduce financial support for Kiev.<\/p>\n

Moscow has described Ukraine\u2019s anti-corruption agencies as instruments of Western influence over the country\u2019s internal affairs. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova recently claimed they were designed not to combat corruption, but to give Western governments leverage over Kiev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kiev\u2019s backers are turning the country into a \u201cdisenfranchised colony,\u201d according to Yulia Timoshenko Western control over Ukraine has reached […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}